Slander
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Once taken, a man’s reputation is nearly impossible to restore to him. In the 8th Commandment (and many other places in Scripture), God enshrines and makes abundantly clear that He hates slander and the man who spreads it. And yet Scripture goes further: Not only must we not slander our neighbor, but we must rebuke the one who does so. Scripture calls the one who hears slander but does not rebuke the slanderer evil.
Next to his life, wife, and possessions, the most dear thing a neighbor has is his good name and reputation. As Christians, we know that we must aid our neighbor in maintaining all that is his, and this certainly includes his reputation. Slander destroys families, friendships, organizations, churches, and entire societies. A godly prince would wield the sword against the slanderer, but every individual Christian has a moral duty to rebuke the slanderer and not to repeat what he has heard.
In this episode, we will examine the contours of what “slander” encompasses, and what we, as Christians, must do in this life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:44.3 | On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be discussing the subject of slander. |
| 0:49.3 | This is part of one of the Ten Commandments. It is something that appears throughout Scripture. In fact, a week |
| 0:55.8 | or so ago when we picked this topic, I didn't realize just how much of an in-depth Bible study |
| 1:01.0 | this could turn into. There are easily hundreds of passages about slander and bearing false |
| 1:06.3 | witness and the like in throughout Scripture. We're not going to belabor the point with hundreds of verses, |
| 1:14.2 | but we're probably going to tackle 20 or so today that are key. |
| 1:18.2 | The reason that we're tackling slander in particular is that this is not only a live issue |
| 1:23.6 | in the world, which I think we all understand. |
| 1:27.4 | It is such a vital issue inside the church |
| 1:31.0 | that it is very realistically destroying some churches today. And Corey and I have been first-party |
| 1:39.1 | victims of some of that behavior. And so as we talk about the subject today, |
| 1:45.2 | we're going to be talking about in various places, |
| 1:47.3 | some of those particulars. |
| 1:48.9 | At the outside, I want to say something |
| 1:50.8 | to folks who've been listening for a while. |
| 1:53.8 | A week or so ago, James O'Keefe recently of Project Veritas, |
| 1:59.4 | div another one of his exposés, and leading up to it, he had this super melodramatic |
| 2:04.7 | flaming excuse for, I'm not suicidal. They're after me. They're trying to kill me. I'm |
| 2:11.3 | a truth teller. I'm blah, blah, blah. And as he was putting on his little performance, |
| 2:16.9 | I realized that some of the things that he was saying sounded all similar or a lot like some of the things that I have said about having been docs and some of the other things in the past. |
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